As a personal example of Samsung reliability, my 11 years old samsung SSD is still kicking, despite being used as a cache for my Truenas homelab for half of it. This thing will outlive me 😆
That's part of the tracking protection. You still need to tell that you do have a GPU, for various reasons (hardware acceleration, etc.), so it provides a generic one, the same for everyone, so it cannot be used for tracking.
They do know you are on a mobile phone, due to your screen size and touch input, which are data points your browser automatically reports, even in desktop mode.
Got one removed too. Got prescribed parecetamol and tramadol (I think, that was years ago)...Learned that way that opioids has barely any effect on me. And that I barely felt a thing despite the healing process (don't search for it on the net, it can be quite graphic).I also learned I have quite the healing factor. Not the Wolverine level, but enough to heal faster than most people. Downside of it is that I scar really easily 😅.
That field is here to allow the support of it, not to make it required everywhere.
Seatbelts isn't required everywhere, but car maker won't make two version of a car, one that support seatbelts, and one that doesn't. They will make one model, with the required attach points to install a seatbelt, and install an actual seatbelt only on cars that goes somewhere where it is mandatory.
Here we are in a similar situation. That filed is here to make of possible for OS to support that law, but it doesn't mean we'll all have to conform to that law unless you live in a country that have said law.
An open source software is, by law, the maintainer's (which can be an individual, or a group of persons) property. It is said maintainer who has the right to grant you any kind of license over what he owns.
In the case of an open-source project, that license is very permissive, true, but if you take the time to read any of those, you will always see :
A provision indicating that the owners grants that licence within the limits of the applicable laws
Sometimes a provision indicating under which juridiction said license is granted. If not, the user local laws are the ones used.
Source : the fucking law and the fucking licenses. And my friend, which happens to be a lawyer specialized in intellectual property laws.
It's a fucking field. Why is everyone loosing his mind over it? It's not like it is required, nor will it prevent you to do anything if you put data in (except not being able to change it later).
If you have to complain, complain about the law, not poor guy that has to add it, by law.
Coil whines are unfortunately common on low end induction stoves, but medium to high end stoves usually don't have them.
Coil whines usually comes from microvibrations due to the current going through the coils, but depending on the build quality it can be almost imperceptible.
Ads and influencers pushing them.